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Industry butt heads over super guarantee

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2020
... respect to the superannuation guarantee (SG) system," the Actuaries Institute said. "It provides people with different types of jobs than full-time positions. They may provide flexibility, etc. but may not always provide sufficient total income for their ...

Surplus may not be as advertised: Grattan

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2020
... employment has been going up," she said. "We know that's particularly true of young people who are working in those unskilled jobs where we have had a lot of extra supply." Rounding off her talk, Wood said she hopes to see climate change considered ...

Wealth manager makes senior appointment

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2020
... three months after the heavily scrutinized firm announced it had closed its Dixon Projects business in Australia, cut 100 jobs and scaled back its US-based fund in a bid to cut costs. David Evan's Evan & Partners merged with Alan Dixon's Dixon Advisory ...

Uncertainty remains for global outlook: TCorp

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2020
... global economic outlook, and how TCorp expects them to evolve. Out of the nine key issues, four are from the US including US jobs growth, US earnings growth, US Federal Reserve easing monetary policy and the US/China Phase 2 Trade Deal. TCorp chief economist ...

Coronavirus in, climate change out: Costello, deVere

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2020
... PricewaterhouseCoopers suggests the coronavirus could cause a $2.3 billion reduction in Australia's GDP over the coming year, with jobs and tourism dollars taking a hard hit from a decline in Chinese tourists and students. The report argued that ...

Chief economist update: Strength in jobs downs RBA rate cut expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020
... report shows that total employment increased by a seasonally adjusted 28,900 in December that followed the addition of 38,500 jobs in the previous month. The unemployment rate declined to 5.1% from 5.2% in November. The same thing happened on the way ...

Technology to transform coming decades

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020
... industries together represent a potential economic benefit of over $210 billion in GDP, and an additional 17,000 full time jobs for Australia by 2047-48," it said. Increased investment in renewable energy technology will lead to a global transition towards ...

Chief economist update: More jobs dull rate cut bets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2019
... released the latest update on the country's labour market. This is because good news is bad news - that is, the good news on jobs bring bad news on expectations for another RBA interest rate reduction come February 2020, and based on seasonally adjusted ...

Chief economist update: It's Christmas time in the city

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2019
... (up 1.6 points to 88.9) increased over the month. "let it snow, let it snow, let it snow". Yes Virginia, it's snowing jobs. The US non-farm payrolls report showed that the economy added 266,000 jobs in November - well above expectations for a gain ...

FSC hails super choice amendments

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019
... whether they want to or not," Loane said. "This is particularly important for the two million Australians working multiple jobs, who may still today find themselves in the position of being required under outdated superannuation laws to have multiple ...